Prog in Brief

Tim Blake’s (right) ca­reer is cel­e­brated on a com­pi­la­tion out via Eso­teric on Nov 30. Light­house: An An­thol­ogy

1973-2012 col­lates solo ma­te­rial, un­re­leased tracks and work with Hawk­wind and Gong on a re­mas­tered four-disc CD/DVD col­lec­tion. A fundraiser for North Devon Hospice has been set up in mem­ory of Bonzo Dog Doo

Dah Band’s Sam Spoons who died in Septem­ber.

The hospice cared for the mu­si­cian in his fi­nal days. Con­trib­ute at www.bit.ly/SamSpoons. Anna von Hauss­wolff pro­ducer Ran­dall Dunn re­leases his first solo al­bum on Nov 9. Beloved is out via Fig­ureight and ex­plores the pos­si­bil­i­ties that early dig­i­tal and ana­logue syn­the­sis­ers of­fer. Read our re­view on page 102.

At­las Em­pire re­lease The Strato­sphere Be­neath Our

Feet on Dec 7 via Band­camp. The Glas­gow band’s de­but blends prog, post-rock and shoegaze, and ex­plores hu­man­ity’s reliance on tech­nol­ogy, and what hap­pens when it fails.